Wednesday, June 12, 2013

In a move that, I predict, will haunt him wherever he plants
his flag in any further political aspirations, Texas governor Rick Perry has
just acted to defund
Public Integrity in Texas.

Yes, that is it. Tom DeLay violated the public trust and was
found guilty of two felony offenses which could only have happened if he had
neither personal nor public integrity. And the office of the District Attorney
of Travis County was instrumental in bringing this about, specifically the
Public Integrity Unit that is run by the Travis County DA that enforces public
integrity laws for all of Texas.

But now Perry has moved to defund that particular unit,
rendering enforcement of all sorts of laws regulating government behavior,
specifically, a watchdog unit over government corruption, inert. Incapable of
enforcing a single law against a single corrupt government official.

This is what Rick Perry seeks to have as his legacy? The
first Post-Reconstruction Texas governor to obstruct enforcement of
anti-corruption laws?